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[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Also fairly sure that electrical impulses alone cannot account for consciousness. If that were "all" there was to it we'd have simulated a human brain by now. There's a few theories about quantum processes being involved but this isn't exactly easily proven.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago

If that were "all" there was to it we'd have simulated a human brain by now.

Didn't it take them a long ass time to do this for a fruit fly brain?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Depends on when you start the timer. The fruit fly brain was only completely mapped recently. There's a simulation of it that runs on a laptop. If that simulation can run on a modern laptop and the map was otherwise available, then it likely could have been done on supercomputers in the decades prior.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I thought they were up to mice now but I might be mistaken.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 14 hours ago

To simulate a human brain, we would need a complete map of it. We don't have that yet. If the quantum theories around neurons are correct, then the map would be incomplete without it.

I doubt we could simulate it directly without a very specialized ASIC.

[-] Wintex@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago

The connectome doesn't really seem to be so realistic, at smaller scales sure.

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